Monday, November 5, 2018

San Diego High School students visit BioLabs

Students from San Diego High School's School of Science and Technology participated in a unique hands-on learning experience at BioLabs. The students visited the state of the art facilities and were given a tour while interacting with real world BioTech entrepreneurs.

BioLabs offers a co-working spaces for life science startups. Unique places where you can test, develop, and grow your game-changing ideas. The goal is to change how scientific entrepreneurs do business by building and ecosystem that empowers bioinnovators to grow quickly, while maximizing capital efficiency.

For a culminating activity, the students worked in groups and used Design Thinking strategies to create a "pitch" that would solve an influenza outbreak for a specific population. They presented their pitches to a panel of mock investors to simulate an experience a startup biotech company would participate in.

San Diego Unified is very fortunate to have partners like BioLabs who create unique learning experiences for students!